How do I get the quail to lay the eggs in the nest?

Okay, so I hatched about 60 quail and I'm not really sure which ones are male/female, but I know there is a ton of eggs, but they just lay them on the ground I would like to harvest the eggs and I have a little nesting box that is set up about 6 inches off the ground. I can take a picture if you would like to see. If anyone has any helpful comments or tricks/hints, it is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

I keep all my quial in 2'x3' pens with a milk jug cut in half in each one with sand for dust bath in them and all the hens lay their eggs in them. Befor I put those in each pen they would just lay them anywhere

Yes, you need to make them some sort of hidey place that they would want to make a nest. The nesting area does not need to be set up like a chicken coop which has an elevated box. Any sort of over turned box with a hole cut in it will work or even an over turned plant pot with a hole in the side, placed at ground level. (In my aviary I turn over a water bucket and cut a mouse hole a third of the way up and they love to lay eggs in these). Add some sort of nesting material....shavings. grass hay or even shredded newspaper, just something they can make a nest out of. And it would help to "bait" them with one of their eggs in the new nesting area. Good luck!

Getting them to lay in nest boxes or some other place where there is privacy with clean nesting material will result in cleaner eggs and better hatches... also will reduce breakage in my experience. Peej, can you post a picture or did I miss it?